Horologium deuotionis circa vitam Christi

Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350, Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer, Zaehnsdorf (Firm), binder, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1490 · [Basel, Johann Amerbach, not after 1490] · 60 pictures

This is a late fifteenth-century devotional book, the Horologium devotionis on the life of Christ, printed in Basel around 1490 by Johann Amerbach for lay readers and monastic devotees. Its pages are dense black-letter text with large red and blue decorated initials and paragraph marks, and a designer might take from them the rhythm of hand-rubricated capitals set against heavy Gothic type blocks.

Basel · Devotional literature · Early works to 1800 · Incunabula · Jesus Christ · Switzerland

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